"Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?"
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"Perez Hilton is an irritating wasp in the beautiful rose garden that is my life."
"I Still Approach A Scene As One Would Approach A Guitar Solo. You Don't Exactly Know How You're Going To Phrase This Or That. Which I Think Is Beautiful. That Idea Of Chance."
"Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful."
"Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less."
"First and foremost, I wear what I love. That's what women have to focus on: what makes them happy and what makes them feel comfortable and beautiful. If I can have any impact, I want women to feel good about themselves and have fun with fashion."
"Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others."
"People are hungry for something more beautiful, for something greater than people round about can give. There is a great hunger for God in the world today. Everywhere there is much suffering, but there is also great hunger for God and love for each other."
"Hana, everything that God made valuable in the world is covered and hard to get to. Where do you find diamonds? Deep down in the ground, covered and protected. Where do you find pearls? Deep down at the bottom of the ocean, covered up and protected in a beautiful shell. Where do you find gold? Way down in the mine, covered over with layers and layers of rock. You've got to work hard to get to them."
"A beautiful death is for people who have lived like animals to die like angels."
"I am a beautiful flower that is blossoming more and more each day. I delight in my world, and my world delights in me."
"It's a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song."
"The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover."
"Above all things physical, it is more important to be beautiful on the inside - to have a big hear and an open mind and a spectacular spleen."
"I love Ireland. I feel very at peace there. It's just magical and beautiful."
"Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead."
"What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. Instead of the city of the Violet Crown, a Lancashire village has expanded into a mighty region of factories and warehouses. Yet, rightly understood, Manchester is as great a human exploit; as Athens."
"I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is and also the most demanding. It requires body control, hand-eye coordination, quickness, flat-out speed, endurance, and that weird mix of caution and abandon we call courage. It also requires smarts. Just one single shot in one exchange in one point of a high-level match is a nightmare of mechanical variables."
"It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns."
"My mom was beautiful; she was supposed to be the original Jane in the original Tarzan movie. They asked her to put her foot in the water and there was an alligator in there, and she wouldn't put her foot in the water."